I had a chance to Skim through the Daemon book yesterday. My local GW had an open copy!
Taking a look at their time line I found two references of interest. The first was a story of a clash between a very powerful Ogre and a Bloodthirster that took place in the dark lands. In the end, though mortally wounded, the Ogre was able to entomb the Bloodthirster in a pillar of rock. That rock was hence forth known as the Daemon’s Stump! So there you have it. Official Daemon Stump fluff.
The second mention of note was that of a Vampire near the Mountains of Mourn. He uncovered a magic crown that allowed him to communicate directly with Tzeentch. A pact between the two was struck and the Vampire led mixed armies of Daemons and Undead against both Ogre and Chaos Dwarf armies.
So, with my quick skim, I found two Chaos Dwarf references! Hopefully there are more. There was nothing about Juggernauts however.
They’ve included references to CD in most of the new books that have come out.
Nice that they’ve included them in things that are uncontroversial (directly or indirectly), but I would have liked to have seen more made of the ‘relationship’ between Daemons and CD.
Probably required thinking, so they couldn’t be bothered.
had a chance to hear about the philosophy of the new daemon book with the big wigs of GW giving an open Q&A. they are trying to go back to, and expand upon, the “classic” imagry of the daemons. blood letters going back to eldritch looking beings, nurgle being a jolly old coot, slaanesh being a mix of horrible and irresitable, etc. same with the hordes of chaos nudge nudge wink wink. the herald of nurgle has the most bad ass fluff along with the fleshhound character imho.
Sounds good. I like the idea of the Daemon’s Stump, however, I’m wondering how the ogre managed to entomb the bloodthirster. Was it magic? Or like a giant cairn? (Perhaps this is a reference to the fluff of Hashut being a bloodthirster and being imprisoned in the Dark Lands? Debate politely if you wish.) The vampire thing sounds okay. I assume it’s a reference to Vortoth’s Tower? (If I remember the place correctly.)
Haha, I just get an image of the Bloodthirster/Ogre battle - Just like Gandalf and the Balrog when they were freefalling down into the sump… THAT would be an interesting diorama!
epidermus isn't a great unclean one mounted on a palanquin, he's just a herald
the great unlcean one characters different, and can fire nurglings like a stone thrower:)
minty
There is rumoured to be a special character that's a GUO on palanquin. This is in addition to Epidemius. Seems they've yet to release models for at least 4 special characters.
the ound of khorne is pretty cool. he tracks his prey through space and time, across dimentions, etc. he gives bonuses to all flesh hounds on the board against one specific enemy unit or character.
epidemius gets more powerful(as does the entire army) as the death toll (from poisoned attacks***) rises. poison can begin wounding on 5’s and 4’s, ward saves get better, etc.
epidermus isn't a great unclean one mounted on a palanquin, he's just a herald
the great unlcean one characters different, and can fire nurglings like a stone thrower:)
minty
There is rumoured to be a special character that's a GUO on palanquin. This is in addition to Epidemius. Seems they've yet to release models for at least 4 special characters.
Grimstonefire
but he's not an a palanquin unfortunatly, just on foot like every other GUO, and they've released all the special character models, as they released the heralds and the others are just super powered greater deamons who look no diferant
+ it's from nurgle models, not posoned attacks malificant, whih is why he rocks so much
I am also interested to know what this rock loocked like, atleast now I know its some kind of magical rock ( well I assume magical) has anyone else found out any more on this??
Also I wonder what were Vampires doing, using this crown to control chaos to fight Ogres and Chaos Dwarfs, I can only imagine that they wanted to free the Bloodthirster to use as a weapon, but it seems that the Ogres and the Chaos Dwarfs do not want that to happen for some reason,… hmmm the plot thickens!
